A new pedunculate cirripede (Thoracica, Heteralepas) from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean

A new species of Heteralepas is described from waters of 300 m at Meteor Seamount, south of the Azores, in the Northeast Atlantic ocean. This species possesses a peduncle longer than the capitulum, a carinal crest without protuberances and continuing onto the peduncle, and it lacks scuta.